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Catching Up

I’ve been going through a bit of a hard time OCD-wise the last month or so. It’s always harder in the winter. Part of that is simple uh, logistics. In the winter there is more clothing to deal with and that’s a lot more stuff to get “contaminated”. I gave up long ago trying to wear gloves. There is just no way to deal with them and contamination. So my hands tend to get pretty beat up over the winter. Though I’ve managed to keep them from cracking and bleeding this year. You learn how to do stuff like this(wash with minimal damage) when dealing with OCD for as long as I have.

Another reason is I have been going out more. I had a couple of plays back to back that I was technical director/lighting designer for and that much outside world contact always spikes the OCD.

But the main culprit is the return of the Pure O. Usually that comes and goes and I think it is going finally. I have never been able to spot the triggers for why that shows up. When it’s around it’s easily triggered but when it’s not the exact same stimulus passes unnoticed. Go figure.

Already she has a couple of posts up that I like a lot. One she is talking about how hard it is to describe OCD to another person. You know how they always say annoying things like, “Yeah, I do that too.” No. You don’t.

In another post she talks about one of the myths surrounding OCD. How some say it is caused by trauma. It isn’t. I know a lot of people can point to a traumatic event in their lives around the time their OCD started and blame that. Everyone has traumatic events in their life over the course of their lives. That is part of life. So any one of us, if we can pinpoint when our OCD started, can point to a traumatic event around that time. But that is not what caused it. Though I can concede that sometimes it may have been the straw that broke the camels back kind of thing but OCD is not caused by trauma.

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I used to think that the bad memories I have is the causes of my OCD. But not anymore, the OCD just happened to be there(inside my mind). It’s like a fate that you could not escape. It shrouds itself deep inside your mind without you knowing it. It was only after that I have a better understanding for what has been happening to me all these years, I realized that the symptoms of my OCD could date back as early as I was 10.

I was an ex OCD sufferer and I cured myself.
Incertus, I sincerely hope that you could find your own cure someday.
Take good care.
Et.

Same here with the hands during winter. Mine get cracked and dry and painful. I use a moisturiser sometimes but it’s best to try and not let them get that bad… I wish.
Good to see the Pure O might be going.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

by Bertrand Russell

The OCD Stories

As OCD is rarely limited to one specific type in one individual it is difficult to place the stories in one category. I have tried to place them in the categories below, by what appears to be the primary category.

Most stories end up in the Pure O category. This is the category for Intrusive thoughts and ruminating. Or obsessions without a clear external compulsion